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Plot Summary of A Handful of Time
"Twelve year old Patricia Potter is sent to her Aunt's cottage in Alberta for the summer while her parents work out the details of their divorce.

Patricia's many cousins do not seem to like her. They tease her and challenge her to do things she is afraid of. Rather than playing with them, Patricia takes to spending time in “La Petit” – an aging guest cottage on family's lake property. Under the floorboards of this small cottage, Patricia finds an old pocket watch. When she winds the watch, she finds herself transported back in time to the summer when her own mother was twelve.

Patricia begins to live in two time periods, experiencing both her mother's summer and her own, as she struggles with her relationship with her cousins and her feelings about her parent's divorce. Through her time travel, Patricia begins to understand her mother, and to become close to her as she has been unable to do in her present life.
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Jennifer Selk, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of A Handful of Time
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Cousin
Family, loving relations Yes
Special relationship with - mother
Is this an adult or child's book? - Age 7-10

Main Character
Gender - Female
Age: - a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - a kid
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 7 ()
Prairie? Yes
Water? Yes
Water: - swimming on

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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